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The St Petersburg Philharmonic playing Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony – a work it premiered in 1937 as the Leningrad Philharmonic – was a highlight of a superb concert concluding its UK tour. 

Fifty years on, Argerich is still the legendary tigress of the keyboard, yet more besides.

The Filarmonica della Scala opened the season with a concert that celebrated its virtues and symbolised its ambitions. The presence of Daniel Barenboim, the former Music Director of La Scala, spoke of its inclusive doctrine.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, its Music Director Charles Dutoit, Principal Guest Conductor Pinchas Zukerman and Martha Argerich party in style with Rossini, Schumann, Bruch and Stravinsky.

Martha Argerich shows her star quality in an extraordinary, intimate rendering of Liszt's First Piano Concerto; the West-Eastern Divan orchestra make a big political statement in performing Wagner.

Together with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle, Martha Argerich gave herself and the audience the best present: Mozart, Beethoven and Scarlatti at the peak of perfection.

A packed audience congregated in Wigmore Hall’s temple to pay homage at a very special concert in which Martha Argerich joined Stephen Kovacevich to mark his 75th birthday. 

Last night’s concert at the Royal Festival Hall brought together three of the biggest names in classical music, performing two works that are somewhat more mid range in popularity within the repertoire.

Martha Argerich makes a triumphant return in her first concert with the Berlin Philharmonic in seven years. 

With musicians of this caliber, it is the soul of the music that matters not the mathematics, and Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer were nothing if not soulmates in this Istanbul recital.

Martha Argerich joined the Manchester Camerata and her friend Gábor Takács-Nagy for a memorable evening of Bartók, Beethoven and Pärt at the Manchester International Festival.

Martha Argerich und Daniel Barenboim geben im Rahmen der Festtage einen fulminanten Duo-Klavierabend in der Philharmonie Berlin.

Entre la gouaille chostakovitchienne et l’exubérance des batucadas, entre la sensualité brésilienne et le fatum d’un Tchaïkovski, il n’y avait qu’un pas, franchi par l’orchestre Neojiba et son chef Ricardo Castro, portés par la figure de Martha Argerich.

Martha Argerich und Mischa Maisky trafen sich im Herkulessaal zu einem kammermusikalischen Gipfeltreffen, um ihre nunmehr 40-jährige musikalische Freundschaft zu feiern.

Le chemin enneigé, bordé de bougies, monte à la vieille Église de Saanen de 1604. Sous son toit, le vieux bois de la balustrade, d’une chaude couleur miel, travaille, grince, gémit : l’atmosphère des concerts hivernaux à Gstaad est unique.

Deux ans après la disparition de Claudio Abbado, mais près d'un demi-siècle après leur premier triomphe parisien, Martha Argerich revient poser le fin mot d'une longue histoire.  Difficile de ne pas éclater en superlatif – sinon en larmes – après pareil saisissement.